My brother left for China at 4am this morning, he's got a job waiting for him and his wifes parents live there.

He was here for about 2 months, back from Indonesia for a while, so yup, now he's gone for I think he said at least a year.

I finished watching the Let's Play Super Metroid Redesign, and you guessed it- I've started the game.

After watching all those videos, the physics don't throw me off anymore, I even immediately got the hang of wall jumping.

Although I think I may have accidentally done a sequence break, I'm in an area where the only ways out require Super Missiles and the Morph Ball Bomb.. I have neither.

The game has a different feel from the original Super Metroid, the tiling is quite different- some wall masks are not as they appear, and a ton of the tiles that would normally stop Samus in her tracks in the original- she can walk right through.

I remember the first time I played the rom hack, I went in a corridor near the start, and it looked like a dead end.

After a while of searching I came back, and noticed the power beam didn't hit the wall, then I realized you can walk right behind it.

Twinsen news, all I did today was have a brief conversation with Cocopuffs, reported a few bugs and that was that.

I did record a tough combo in level 5 though, check it out:

BYAAH!